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Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media, a division of Carson Dellosa Education
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Do you dream of hitting high scores and winning championships? In this "who's who" of video game greats, you'll meet the top designers, gamers, and teams in eSports. Once you're done reading, it'll be time to take your place as the World's Greatest eSports Fan.--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In twelve-year-old Reyna Cheng's world, gaming is everything. Professional esports teams are the mainstream celebrities. Kids begin training from a young age, aspiring for the big leagues. Reyna is the up-and-coming junior amateur Dayhold gamer, competing in a VR battle royale against AI monsters and human players. But despite Reyna's rising popularity and skills, no one knows who she is. Gaming is still a boys' club and to protect herself against...
Author
Series
TransDimensional hunter volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Becoming a global celebrity overnight would make most people happy. Not Lynn Raven. As a teenage gaming prodigy, she's enjoyed years of anonymity behind the virtual mask of Larry Coughlin, war-hardened vet and virtual gaming mercenary. But now Lynn has stepped out of the shadows to compete in the cutting-edge augmented reality game TransDimensional Hunter that has taken the world by storm. And she's winning. But with success has come swarms of paparazzi...
6) Game on
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Samara Reynolds has built a large following as a gamer under an anonymous screenname, and uses her skills as a DEIA consultant to advocate for equal representation in video games. When she posted a video critiquing the popular game Legendsfall, she knew she'd get a reaction from her fans, but the video leads to hundreds of female gamers critiquing the game and its company, Artemis Games. The only thing more unexpected than starting an online movement...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Gaming used to be dominated by men, but some of the world's most popular streamers and eSports players are women. Meet some of the women superstars of gaming and learn how they reached the top"-- provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Dreamwalker chronicles volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After her brother is kidnapped during a fire, Jessica Drake uses clues left behind on his computer to track him down in another world in this new fantasy saga from the author of the Magister trilogy.
All her life Jessica Drake has dreamed of other worlds, some of them similar to her own, others disturbingly alien. She never shares the details with anyone, save her younger brother Tommy, a compulsive gamer who incorporates some aspects of Jessica's...
10) MindWar: a novel
Author
Series
MindWar trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Rick Dial has the potential to be a hero. He just doesn't know it yet. Rick's high school football team couldn't be stopped when he was leading them as their quarterback. He was going to Syracuse on a scholarship. But then his dad abandoned them and a terrible accident left him crippled.Certain his old life is completely lost, Rick spends months hiding away in his room playing video games. He achieves the highest scores on so many games that he'sapproached...
11) Heartless
Author
Series
Immortal enemies novels (Showalter) volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After receiving a long-awaited heart transplant, a professional gamer girl begins to develop strange abilities and is soon launched into a mysterious world filled with fantastical and deadly creatures and ruled over by an extremely seductive man.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yen On
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"After rising to rule as the king and queen of the remaining humans in the world of Disboard, gamer siblings Sora and Shiro bail out of an unwinnable romance game against the races of Dhampir and Siren! To uncover the true strategy to beat it, they head for the home of the angelic Flügel: the flying city of Avant Heim! But the Flügel are a mad race of god killers--will things really go as Sora and Shiro plan? Can our one-winged gamers together conquer...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old gaymer Noah Mitchell only has one friend left: the wonderful, funny, strictly online-only MagePants69. After years playing RPGs together, they know everything about each other, except anything that would give away their real life identities. And Noah is certain that if they could just meet in person, they would be soulmates. Noah would do anything to make this happen--including finally leaving his gaming chair to join a community...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Minecraft® is the best-selling video game of all time! And now learning to read has never been more fun for fans of the game ages 4 to 7. They'll get a great introduction to the game's Survival Mode when two players Emmy and Birch--and their tame wolf Byte--set out to explore, build, craft--and survive--in the epic expanse of the Overworld! Step 3 readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics for children who are...
15) Survival mode!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Minecraft® is the best-selling video game of all time! And now learning to read has never been more fun for fans of the game ages 4 to 7. They'll get a great introduction to the game's Survival Mode when two players Emmy and Birch--and their tame wolf Byte--set out to explore, build, craft--and survive--in the epic expanse of the Overworld! Over 30 full-color stickers add to the fun. Step 3 readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots...
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Take your gaming skills beyond the screen in Ultimate Gamer: Career Mode--the ultimate handbook to becoming a game developer, Twitch streamer, or the next eSports pro! Learn how to storyboard, code, and test games, just like your favorite devs, or boost your Twitch subs by learning how to go pro."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your eye. It is a groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide.
18) Firebreak
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side....
19) The never game
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, the first novel in a thrilling new series, introducing Colter Shaw. A young woman has gone missing in Silicon Valley and her father has hired Colter Shaw to find her. The son of a survivalist family, Shaw is an expert tracker. Now he makes a living as a "reward seeker," traveling the country to help police solve crimes and private citizens locate missing persons. But what seems a simple investigation...
20) Shed of the dead
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The film follows two slackers, who whittle their days away playing Dungeons & Dragons and painting figurines. As life pressures build up for Trevor and Graham, events take an unexpected turn when the undead turn up in their little gardening spot. Now, it is a fight for survival in a real zombie apocalypse.
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